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more than one respect. Quacks and educated veterinarians are 
put upon an equal legal footing, while the law is protective to 
graduates of the future. 
I may be entirely wrong in my views on the subject of veter¬ 
inary legislation, but even if such be the fact I have the consola¬ 
tion of knowing that there are plenty of veterinarians, from the 
various colleges, not only in New Jersey and New York, but 
throughout the United States, who entertain similar views to 
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mine on the subject in question. 
Only yesterday I received a letter from J. C. Meyer, Jr., M. 
LX, D.V.S., of Cincinnati, Ohio, in which he says : u I admire 
your views, as expressed in the Review of December, on veter¬ 
inary legislation.” Dr. Meyer would rather see a bill passed 
which would not go into effect for five years hence, and thereby 
allow non-graduates to qualify themselves, than to see one passed 
which would go into effect immediately but would allow quacks 
to register. How much better it would be if this had been done 
in New York State. 
Dr. Chas. E. Munn, of Watertown, Dakota Territory, a grad¬ 
uate of the Ontario Veterinary College, has favored me with a 
long letter on the subject in question, from which I extract the 
following : “ I have read in the December number of the Amer¬ 
ican Veterinary Review your article on veterinary legislation, 
and it coincides with my opinion on the subject so completely that 
I could not help writing you a few words to thank you for making 
public your views on the subject. I hardly think Dr. Pendry has 
helped his side of the question by his last article on the subject. 
As I understand it, the non-graduates who have taken advantage 
of the law by registering are placed on an equal footing, as far as 
Dr. Pendry’s veterinary legislation is concerned, with graduates 
who have earned their right to practice at a cost of both time and 
money, to say nothing of hard brain work. This gives the regis¬ 
tered quacks a chance to parade themselves before the public as 
being equal, lawfully of course, to qualified men. That is the 
point I do not like about this little bit of legislation. One legal¬ 
ized non-graduate I noticed in the list made his cross, presumably 
because he could not write his name. It does not seem right or 
